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WASHINGTON - After fleeing in the face of Hurricane Katrina, ocean researchers have returned to the Gulf of Mexico where they are getting a revealing new look at the deep sea.
"We are exploring the deep sea with new eyes," oceanographer Tamara Frank of the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution said Friday.
Frank and others aboard the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Research Vessel Seward Johnson are using a camera that operates with dim red light to study life on the sea floor.
They have found a variety of deep-dwelling shellfish that produce their own light, animals with surprising ability to see ultraviolet light and a previously unknown type of squid, six feet long, that attacked their camera.
-AP
"We are exploring the deep sea with new eyes," oceanographer Tamara Frank of the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution said Friday.
Frank and others aboard the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Research Vessel Seward Johnson are using a camera that operates with dim red light to study life on the sea floor.
They have found a variety of deep-dwelling shellfish that produce their own light, animals with surprising ability to see ultraviolet light and a previously unknown type of squid, six feet long, that attacked their camera.
-AP